Mr. Osako’s company employs two dozen potters and sells its distinctive pieces across Japan. While embracing his heritage, Mr ...

Japan has yet to fulfill its promises made during the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage listing of the Sado Mine in Niigata ...

Lately, Japan’s Aikawa Folk Museum, a small structure of creamy clapboards and baked roof tiles, has become a household name among South Koreans. It is located on Sado Island, the subject of much ...

The year 2025 marks the 60th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and South Korea, a significant milestone in the history of both nations. Despite the long-standing ...

On the 1st, at Akama Shrine in Shimonoseki, a port city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, Mr. Mizuno, the chief priest (宮司), ...

SADO, Japan (AP) — South Korea commemorated wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan’s Sado gold mines in a ceremony Monday, a day after boycotting a similar event organized by Japan, as tensions over ...

National Liberation Day is traditionally an occasion for solemn celebration in South Korea, marking the country’s independence from its colonial overlord, Japan. Yet for many younger South Koreans, ...

Long-standing tensions between Japan and South Korea have reached a symbolic peak over a Buddhist statue stolen from Kannonji Temple on the Japanese island of Tsushima and transported to South Korea ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The August 2023 Camp David Summit between Japan, South Korea, and the United ...

Yesterday, the foreign ministers of the United States, South Korea (ROK), and Japan met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) high-level week and reiterated the decision to ...

Earlier this week, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and his ministerial counterparts, Kiharu Minoru of Japan and Shin Won-Sik of South Korea, jointly announced a new agreement titled, in rather wordy ...